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The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development
This volume assembles for the first time in English a selection of the work which a group of Peruvian development specialists of peasant background have initiated since 1987. Their starting point is that development itself is the problem because its epistemologies and practices are alien to the indigenous peasantry. Instead, they believe that the native cultural and agricultural systems in the Andes are very much alive, environmentally respectful, and embody a viable, even if totally different, mode of being and understanding from the industrial West. The contributors to this volume, all of them Peruvians, present different facets of this Andean worldview which, while able to absorb elements from other cultures, exists on its own terms and within its own ongoing cosmology.
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The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development
This volume assembles for the first time in English a selection of the work which a group of Peruvian development specialists of peasant background have initiated since 1987. Their starting point is that development itself is the problem because its epistemologies and practices are alien to the indigenous peasantry. Instead, they believe that the native cultural and agricultural systems in the Andes are very much alive, environmentally respectful, and embody a viable, even if totally different, mode of being and understanding from the industrial West. The contributors to this volume, all of them Peruvians, present different facets of this Andean worldview which, while able to absorb elements from other cultures, exists on its own terms and within its own ongoing cosmology.
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The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development

The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development

by Frederique Apffel-Marglin, PRATEC
The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development
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The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development

The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development

by Frederique Apffel-Marglin, PRATEC

Overview

This volume assembles for the first time in English a selection of the work which a group of Peruvian development specialists of peasant background have initiated since 1987. Their starting point is that development itself is the problem because its epistemologies and practices are alien to the indigenous peasantry. Instead, they believe that the native cultural and agricultural systems in the Andes are very much alive, environmentally respectful, and embody a viable, even if totally different, mode of being and understanding from the industrial West. The contributors to this volume, all of them Peruvians, present different facets of this Andean worldview which, while able to absorb elements from other cultures, exists on its own terms and within its own ongoing cosmology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781856495486
Publisher: Zed Books
Publication date: 05/28/1998
Series: Spirit Regeneration Series
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frederique Apffel-Marglin is Professor of Anthropology at Smith College, Northampton.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Knowledge and Life Revisited
• Andean Peasant Agriculture: Nurturing the Diversity of Life
• The Ayllu
• Development or Cultural Affirmation in the Andes?
• The Aymara Couple in the Community
• Water in Quispillacta
• Education in the Modern West and in Andean Culture
• Development or Decolonization in the Andes?
• Notes
• Charts
• Bibliography
• Index

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